Two New Jersey Libraries Pull Gay-Themed Book From Their Shelves

USA Today:

The gay-themed book Revolutionary Voices, an anthology of first-person works by youths in New Jersey, has been quietly pulled from library shelves in Burlington County, N.J., and a high school, reports our colleague Jim Walsh of the Courier-Post.

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Comments

[hey0there]

07:01 PM on 08/08/2010

alot if these books for gay teens are downright pornographic.

[Musa1]

01:16 AM on 08/08/2010

Pornography has no place in the public library system.

[myblueohio]

12:08 PM on 08/07/2010

So much for the "free speech" that the right is always yelling about. I guess if it isn't their speech it should not even be allowed. Hypocrites..

[Retrofuturistic]

12:36 PM on 08/06/2010

If you burn a book or censor a book or in some way conspire to keep any book from any person who wants to read it, it proves one thing--- you're a rube.... A narcissistic rube who thinks your narrow way is THE way, that you know better than all others, and you have the right to deny everyone the means to be on their own path and find their own way.

We should not keep anything from anyone, because when you do, you deny their right to judge it and learn from it by themselves. At the bottom of this is whether each person will have the right to make their own determinations or whether they are to blindly accept the determinations of someone else.

The fact that Glenn Beck is involved with this speaks volumes.

[ramal]

10:06 AM on 08/06/2010

A sad and shameful act that one would expect out of Alabama or Utah. Who is going to read the book except a Gay youth who is either questioning his or her identity or one who desperately needs positive role models? This is only hurting a young person who needs help and guidance. It is past time that America "grew up" regarding its whole fear of Gay People and the homophobia that it, in turn, breeds. Gays have been with humanity since the beginning of time and they are here to stay.

[c-tom]

01:18 AM on 08/06/2010

Evil librarians make me sad.

[AlPal3]

11:59 PM on 08/05/2010

These libraries owe an apology to every reader in the United States.

[Miss Cookie]

03:05 AM on 08/06/2010

Roger that. No book should ever be banned.

[Klytemnestra]

08:44 PM on 08/05/2010

I'd rather see them pull Jersey Shore from TV.

[Nestor92]

03:21 PM on 08/05/2010

and guess who had a hand in helping it get banned?
I'll give you a hint, his first name is "Glenn", his last name is "Beck" and his middle name is "I'm a to0l"

[SF TKF]

03:09 PM on 08/05/2010

Can the people of NJ loudly pull their tax dollars from supporting this so-called library?

[revcbs]

02:18 PM on 08/05/2010

We can't get anything right in Jersey.

[GregJL]

03:02 PM on 08/05/2010

On the contrary..I think this move is completely RIGHT. It certainly is as far frm LEFT as one can get.